When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God by which also God is magnified and exalted.

He must pull out his own eyes and see no creature before he can say he sees no God He must be no man and quench his reasonable soul before he can say to himself there is no God.

Among God's creatures two the dog and the guitar have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.

God's first creature which was light.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Every creature is a word of God.

We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.